Sixth Grade Math Overview

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    The Number Sense

    • Apply and extend previous understandings of mulitpication and division to divide fractions by fraction
    • Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples
    • Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to thesystem of rational numbers

    Ratios and Proportional Relationships

    • Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems

    Geometry

    • Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume

    Expressions and Equations

    • Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions
    • Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities
    • Represent and analyze quantitative relationships betweendependent and independent variables

    Statistics

    • Develop understanding of statistical variability
    • Summarize and describe distributions


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  • Mathematical Practices

    1. Make sense of problems and persevere in problem solving them.
    2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively
    3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
    4. Model with mathematics.
    5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
    6. Attend to precision
    7. Look for and make use of structure.
    8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.